Claude Duet is Anthropic's answer to Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots

Anthropic subscribers in the US can join a waitlist to try the company’s new agent. Claude Duet is Anthropic’s answer to Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots. News AI Claude Duet is Anthropic’s answer to Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots Anthropic subscribers in the US can join a waitlist to try the new agent.

As part of a new "research" preview, the company on Wednesday announced Claude Duet. "It comes to you with what needs your attention, completes tasks you ask of it, keeps working even when you step away, and checks with you before it acts on your behalf," Anthropic says of Duet. For now, you’ll need to join a waitlist that’s only open to Claude subscribers in the US to try the new tool.

Like OpenAI, Anthropic is billing Duet as a proactive agent. Each day, it will generate a short briefing with a list of action items from your connected apps. "You can also hand it tasks of all shapes — from simple administrative tasks of scheduling meetings to more complex ones, such as building dashboards with dozens of tools, creating financial or sales forecasts, prototyping, and building web apps," the company writes, promising Duet will only message you when something requires your attention.

Like Dots and Muse, it is a proactive agent that "reaches out before you ask." Claude Duet connects to your apps and suggests things that need your attention. It completes tasks and can work in the cloud without local access to a computer.

As with Muse and Dots, Duet has a virtual machine with its own browser to complete tasks. Anthropic says it built Duet for professionals and small business owners with too much to track, as those are the people most likely to find it helpful.

Duet is built around Opus 5.5. It sends a short brief each morning on important items from connected apps, then checks apps every few hours and sends an alert when something needs attention.

It can complete simple administrative tasks or more complex tasks like building web apps. While the agent works on its own, it will get user approval before it takes actions like sending a message, making a payment, signing a document, or deleting a file.

It incorporates memory, skills, and connected apps from a Claude account, so there isn’t much setup involved. Interactions happen in one ongoing thread instead of across different conversations.

Claude Duet does not see passwords or logins when given access to accounts, and it has a dedicated classifier and safety system prompt that checks each message and guards against sensitive information leaks. Claude Duet is a standalone product that’s available in a research preview right now with access granted via waitlist.

It’s limited to Pro and Max subscribers in the United States, and can be used via the web or a standalone Duet iOS app. Duet uses your existing Claude plan limits, and its background checks will count toward them.

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While Duet runs on Opus 5.5, one of the models Anthropic offers through Claude, the company is releasing standalone Android and iOS apps for people to use Duet.